Leader of the House of Commons | Ambtstermijn | Partij | Premier | Kabinet | Overige functie(s) |
| | Graaf Russell John Russell (1792–1878) | 30 juni 1846 | 22 februari 1852 | Whig Party | John Russell (1846–1852) | Russell I | Premier |
| | Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) | 22 februari 1852 | 28 december 1852 | Conservative Party | Edward Smith-Stanley (1852) | Smith-Stanley I | Minister van Financiën |
| | Graaf Russell John Russell (1792–1878) | 28 december 1852 | 6 februari 1855 | Whig Party | George Hamilton -Gordon (1852–1855) | Hamilton-Gordon | Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken (1852–1853) |
Minister zonder portefeuille (1853–1854) |
Lord President of the Council (1854–1855) |
| | Burggraaf Palmerston Henry John Temple (1784–1865) | 6 februari 1855 | 20 februari 1858 | Whig Party | Henry John Temple (1855–1858) | Temple I | Premier |
| | Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) | 20 februari 1858 | 12 juni 1859 | Conservative Party | Edward Smith-Stanley (1858–1859) | Smith-Stanley II | Minister van Financiën |
| | Burggraaf Palmerston Henry John Temple (1784–1865) | 12 juni 1859 | 18 oktober 1865 [2] | Liberal Party | Henry John Temple (1859–1865) | Temple II | Premier |
| | William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) | 18 oktober 1865 | 28 juni 1866 | Liberal Party | John Russell (1865–1866) | Russell II | Minister van Financiën |
| | Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) | 28 juni 1866 | 3 december 1868 | Conservative Party | Edward Smith-Stanley (1866–1868) | Smith-Stanley III | Minister van Financiën |
Benjamin Disraeli (1868) | Disraeli I | Premier |
| | William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) | 3 december 1868 | 20 februari 1874 | Liberal Party | William Ewart Gladstone (1868–1874) | Gladstone I | Premier |
Minister van Financiën (1868–1873) |
| | Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) | 20 februari 1874 | 22 augustus 1876 [3] | Conservative Party | Benjamin Disraeli (1874–1880) | Disraeli II | Premier |
| | Sir Stafford Northcote (1818–1887) | 22 augustus 1876 | 23 april 1880 | Conservative Party | Minister van Financiën |
| | William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) | 23 april 1880 | 23 juni 1885 | Liberal Party | William Ewart Gladstone (1880–1885) | Gladstone II | Premier |
Minister van Financiën (1880–1882) |
| | Sir Michael Hicks Beach (1837–1916) | 23 juni 1885 | 28 januari 1886 | Conservative Party | Robert Gascoyne-Cecil (1885–1886) | Gascoyne-Cecil I | |
| | William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) | 28 januari 1886 | 20 juli 1886 | Liberal Party | William Ewart Gladstone (1886) | Gladstone III | Premier |
Lord Privy Seal |
| | Sir Randolph Churchill (1849–1895) | 20 juli 1886 | 14 januari 1887 [4] | Conservative Party | Robert Gascoyne-Cecil (1886–1892) | Gascoyne-Cecil II | Minister van Financiën |
| | William Henry Smith (1825–1891) | 14 januari 1887 | 6 oktober 1891 [2] | Conservative Party | |
| | Arthur Balfour (1848–1930) | 6 oktober 1891 | 15 augustus 1892 | Conservative Party | Minister voor Ierland (1891) |
| | William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) | 15 augustus 1892 | 5 maart 1894 | Liberal Party | William Ewart Gladstone (1892–1894) | Gladstone IV | Premier |
Lord Privy Seal |
| | Sir William Harcourt (1827–1904) | 5 maart 1894 | 25 juni 1895 | Liberal Party | Archibald Primrose (1894–1895) | Primrose | Minister van Financiën |
| | Arthur Balfour (1848–1930) | 25 juni 1895 | 5 december 1905 | Conservative Party | Robert Gascoyne-Cecil (1895–1902) | Gascoyne-Cecil III | |
Gascoyne-Cecil IV |
Arthur Balfour (1902–1905) | Balfour | Premier |
| | Sir Henry Campbell- Bannerman (1836–1908) | 5 december 1905 | 8 april 1908 | Liberal Party | Henry Campbell- Bannerman (1905–1908) | Campbell- Bannerman | Premier |
| | Herbert Henry Asquith (1852–1928) | 8 april 1908 | 7 december 1916 | Liberal Party | Herbert Henry Asquith (1908–1916) | Asquith I | Premier |
Asquith II |
Asquith III |
Asquith IV |
| | Bonar Law (1858–1923) | 7 december 1916 | 1 april 1921 | Conservative Party | David Lloyd George (1919–1922) | Lloyd George I | Minister van Financiën (1916–1919) |
Lloyd George II | Lord Privy Seal (1919–1921) |
| | Sir Austen Chamberlain (1863–1937) | 1 april 1921 | 23 oktober 1922 | Conservative Party | Lord Privy Seal (1919–1921) |
| | Bonar Law (1858–1923) | 23 oktober 1922 | 22 mei 1923 [4] | Conservative Party | Bonar Law (1922–1923) | Law | Premier |
| | Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) | 22 mei 1923 | 22 januari 1924 | Conservative Party | Stanley Baldwin (1923–1924) | Baldwin I | Premier |
Minister van Financiën (1923) |
| | Ramsay MacDonald (1866–1937) | 22 januari 1924 | 3 november 1924 | Labour Party | Ramsay MacDonald (1924) | MacDonald I | Premier |
Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken |
| | Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) | 4 november 1924 | 5 juni 1929 | Conservative Party | Stanley Baldwin (1924–1929) | Baldwin II | Premier |
| | Ramsay MacDonald (1866–1937) | 5 juni 1929 | 7 juni 1935 | Labour Party (1929–1931) | Ramsay MacDonald (1929–1935) | MacDonald II | Premier |
| National Labour (1931–1935) | MacDonald III (Nationaal Kabinet I) |
MacDonald IV (Nationaal Kabinet II) |
| | Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) | 7 juni 1935 | 28 mei 1937 | Conservative Party | Stanley Baldwin (1935–1937) | Baldwin III (Nationaal Kabinet III) | Premier |
| | Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940) | 28 mei 1937 | 10 mei 1940 [4] | Conservative Party | Neville Chamberlain (1937–1940) | Chamberlain I (Nationaal Kabinet IV) | Premier |
Chamberlain II |
| | Winston Churchill (1874–1965) | 10 mei 1940 | 19 februari 1942 | Conservative Party | Winston Churchill (1940–1945) | Churchill I | Premier |
Minister van Defensie |
| | Sir Stafford Cripps (1889–1952) | 19 februari 1942 | 22 november 1942 | Labour Party | Lord Privy Seal |
| | Anthony Eden (1897–1977) | 22 november 1942 | 26 juli 1945 | Conservative Party | Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken |
Churchill II |
| | Herbert Morrison (1888–1965) | 26 juli 1945 | 9 maart 1951 | Labour Party | Clement Attlee (1945–1951) | Attlee I | Vicepremier Lord President of the Council |
Attlee II |
| | Chuter Ede (1882–1965) | 9 maart 1951 | 26 oktober 1951 | Labour Party | Minister van Binnenlandse Zaken |
| | Harry Crookshank (1893–1961) | 26 oktober 1951 | 20 december 1955 | Conservative Party | Winston Churchill (1951–1955) | Churchill III | Minister van Volksgezondheid (1951–1952) |
Anthony Eden (1955–1957) | Eden |
Lord Privy Seal (1952–1955) |
| | Rab Butler (1902–1982) | 20 december 1955 | 9 oktober 1961 | Conservative Party | Lord Privy Seal (1955–1959) |
Harold Macmillan (1957–1963) | Macmillan I |
Macmillan II | Minister van Binnenlandse Zaken (1957–1961) |
| | Iain Macleod (1913–1970) | 9 oktober 1961 | 19 oktober 1963 | Conservative Party | Kanselier van het Hertogdom Lancaster |
| | Selwyn Lloyd (1904–1978) | 19 oktober 1963 | 16 oktober 1964 | Conservative Party | Alec Douglas-Home (1963–1964) | Douglas-Home | Lord Privy Seal |
| | Herbert Bowden (1905–1994) | 16 oktober 1964 | 11 augustus 1966 | Labour Party | Harold Wilson (1964–1970) | Wilson I | Lord President of the Council |
Wilson II |
| | Dick Crossman (1907–1974) | 11 augustus 1966 | 18 oktober 1968 | Labour Party | Lord President of the Council |
| | Fred Peart (1914–1988) | 18 oktober 1968 | 19 juni 1970 | Labour Party | Lord President of the Council |
| | Willie Whitelaw (1918–1999) | 19 juni 1970 | 7 april 1972 | Conservative Party | Edward Heath (1970–1974) | Heath | Lord President of the Council |
| | Robert Carr (1916–2012) | 7 april 1972 | 5 november 1972 | Conservative Party | Minister van Binnenlandse Zaken |
Lord President of the Council |
| | Jim Prior (1927–2016) | 5 november 1972 | 4 maart 1974 | Conservative Party | Lord President of the Council |
| | Edward Short (1912–2012) | 4 maart 1974 | 5 april 1976 | Labour Party | Harold Wilson (1974–1976) | Wilson III | Lord President of the Council |
| | Michael Foot (1913–2010) | 5 april 1976 | 4 mei 1979 | Labour Party | James Callaghan (1976–1979) | Callaghan | Lord President of the Council |
| | Norman St John-Stevas (1929–2012) | 4 mei 1979 | 5 januari 1981 [5] | Conservative Party | Margaret Thatcher (1979–1990) | Thatcher I | Kanselier van het Hertogdom Lancaster |
Minister voor Cultuur |
| | Francis Pym (1922–2008) | 5 januari 1981 | 6 april 1982 [6] | Conservative Party | Kanselier van het Hertogdom Lancaster (1981) |
Thesaurier-generaal (1981) |
Lord President of the Council (1981–1982) |
| | John Biffen (1930–2007) | 6 april 1982 | 13 juni 1987 | Conservative Party | Lord President of the Council (1982–1983) |
Thatcher II | Lord Privy Seal (1983–1987) |
| | John Wakeham (1932) | 13 juni 1987 | 24 juli 1989 [7] | Conservative Party | Thatcher III | Lord Privy Seal (1987–1988) |
Lord President of the Council (1988–1989) |
| | Sir Geoffrey Howe (1926–2015) | 24 juli 1989 | 1 november 1990 [4] | Conservative Party | Vicepremier |
First Secretary of State |
Lord President of the Council |
| | John MacGregor (1937) | 1 november 1990 | 10 april 1992 | Conservative Party | Lord President of the Council |
John Major (1990–1997) | Major I |
| | Tony Newton (1937–2012) | 10 april 1992 | 2 mei 1997 | Conservative Party | Major II | Lord President of the Council |
| | Ann Taylor (1947) | 2 mei 1997 | 27 juli 1998 [8] | Labour Party | Tony Blair (1997–2007) | Blair I | Lord President of the Council |
| | Margaret Beckett (1943) | 27 juli 1998 | 8 juni 2001 | Labour Party | Lord President of the Council |
| | Robin Cook (1946–2005) | 8 juni 2001 | 18 maart 2003 [4] | Labour Party | Blair II | Lord President of the Council |
| | John Reid (1947) | 18 maart 2003 | 13 juni 2003 [9] | Labour Party | Lord President of the Council |
| | Peter Hain (1950) | 13 juni 2003 | 5 mei 2005 | Labour Party | Lord Privy Seal |
Minister voor Wales |
| | Geoff Hoon (1953) | 5 mei 2005 | 6 mei 2006 [10] | Labour Party | Blair III | Lord Privy Seal |
| | Jack Straw (1946) | 6 mei 2006 | 27 juni 2007 | Labour Party | Lord Privy Seal |
| | Harriet Harman (1950) | 27 juni 2007 | 11 mei 2010 | Labour Party | Gordon Brown (2007–2010) | Brown | Lord Privy Seal |
Minister voor Vrouwen en Gelijkheid |
| | Sir George Young (1941) | 11 mei 2010 | 4 september 2012 [8] | Conservative Party | David Cameron (2010–2016) | Cameron I | Lord Privy Seal |
| | Andrew Lansley (1956) | 4 september 2012 | 14 juli 2014 [5] | Conservative Party | Lord Privy Seal |
| | William Hague (1961) | 14 juli 2014 | 9 mei 2015 | Conservative Party | First Secretary of State |
| | Chris Grayling (1962) | 9 mei 2015 | 13 juli 2016 | Conservative Party | Cameron II | Lord President of the Council |
| | David Lidington (1956) | 13 juli 2016 | 11 juni 2017 | Conservative Party | Theresa May (2016–2019) | May I | Lord President of the Council |
| | Andrea Leadsom (1963) | 11 juni 2017 | 23 mei 2019 [4] | Conservative Party | May II | Lord President of the Council |
| | Mel Stride (1961) | 23 mei 2019 | 24 juli 2019 | Conservative Party | Lord President of the Council |
| | Jacob Rees-Mogg (1969) | 24 juli 2019 | 8 februari 2022 | Conservative Party | Boris Johnson (2019–2022) | Johnson I | Lord President of the Council |
Johnson II |
| | Mark Spencer (1970) | 8 februari 2022 | 7 september 2022 | Conservative Party | Johnson II | Lord President of the Council |
| | Penny Mordaunt (1973) | 6 september 2022 | 5 juli 2024 | Conservative Party | Liz Truss (2022) | Truss | Lord President of the Council |
Rishi Sunak (2022–2024) | Sunak |
| | Lucy Powell (1974) | 5 juli 2024 | heden | Labour Party | Keir Starmer (2024–heden) | Starmer | Lord President of the Council |